Somali Knife Attacker Recommended Jihad Book

As you would expect, he was a jihadi, not simply mentally ill:

The British authorities have said Zakaria Bulhan – the 19-year-old Norwegian man of Somali descent arrested on suspicion of murdering American tourist Darlene Horton in London on Wednesday night and stabbing five others – does not necessarily have any links to Islamic terrorism.

However, Heat Street has found evidence that a person using the same name – Zakaria Bulhan – has listed at least one book advocating violent jihadism in their personal account on the Good Reads website since 2014.

Denying jihadism after attacks was the plan up until 9/11. I always suspected that after seeing previous attacks dismissed as accidents or lone nutjobs, Al Qaida decided that they would have to launch an attack which could not be dismissed as anything but a jihadi attack.

In retrospect, it would seem a bad strategy. Not only because it would provoke jihadis to engage in ever more spectacular attacks that couldn’t be denied, but because it would also shield the populace from the effects of stupid policies like importing Muslims in large numbers from areas loaded with jihadi wannabes.

Sometimes you have to let the stupid hurt, if you want to solve the problem.